59 occurrences

'Despised' in the Bible

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesPregnancyMarital SexMarital Sex Betweensarahmistress

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeCriticism, against believersAbraham, Testing And VictoryPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodVegetablesThose Who Provided A Meallent

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Verse ConceptsAbhorRejection Of God

But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsIntemperanceNosesOne MonthNostrilsGod Is Among You

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Verse ConceptsChildren And The Kingdom

Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

Verse ConceptsBraggingBoasting ExcludedOther Unimportant People

But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

Verse ConceptsGiftsReproachInsultsPrejudiceSilenceSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuperiorityTreasonIndividuals Being SilentNo One Can SaveNot Giving

And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Verse ConceptsForgettingevil, believers' responses toSanctity Of LifeSuffering, Causes OfWord Of GodKilling Named IndividualsTransferring Wives

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

Verse ConceptsRetributionKilling Will HappenTransferring Wives

This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersVirgin

And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

Verse ConceptsdanceDancingHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumping

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

Verse ConceptsContempt, Examples OfLaughterMockeryRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRidicule, Nature OfSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of Wicked

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Verse ConceptsHeadsInferiorityCrying To GodLet Evil ReboundPay Attention O God!

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Verse ConceptsAffluencePeace, Human Search ForPeople Stumblingfate

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHope, Results OfAbusive MarriagesDisdainGod HidingGod Paid Attention To ThemAfflictionsBelittling

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGuilty FearBonesTerror Of GodBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Verse ConceptsCommendationProverbsPerversionDespising PeopleLife Despisedgays

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthBenefits Of WisdomPoor PeopleFamily StrengthSaving Moneystrengh

O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

Verse ConceptsSibling Lovebreasts

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Verse ConceptsHighwayInferiorityTreatyEmpty ThingsTravellersTragedy On The StreetsHighways

This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Verse ConceptsVirginWord Of Godvirginity

The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemHumbling The ProudoppressionzionAll Enemies Under God's Feet

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Verse ConceptsInferiorityThrowing PeopleUnknown ThingsExile In Prospectpot

Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Verse ConceptsTwo Groups

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Verse ConceptsInferioritySmallnessSmall Things

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalDecayDestruction Of The TempleGod Living In The TabernacleBoothsForgetting ThingsDeposed PriestsFestivals DisregardedSabbath Violated

For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToPossibility Of DeathAuthority Delegated To People

Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

Verse ConceptsGuaranteeNo Escape

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodSabbath, In OtJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedWorks Of The LawRebellion against God

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtSabbath Violated

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsBriersThorns

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

Verse ConceptsOther Unimportant People

For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfContemptGod, Present EverywherePlumb LineVisionSmall Things God UsesSeven Body PartsSmall ThingsPatrollingGod Seeing All The Earth

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofHonorProphecy, Methods Of OtRespect, For Human BeingsServants, GoodStatusHonouring ParentsServants Of PeopleHonour The HonourableRespectRespecting ParentsLoving Your Parentsclosurereverencehonour

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

Verse ConceptsCovetousness, Example OfAll NationsWorshipping Material ThingsDeposing

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Verse ConceptsChosen InstrumentsHumilityArrogant ExistenceChosen DisciplesOther Unimportant PeopleimportanceJustification Excluding Boasting

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּוּז 
Buwz 
Usage: 13

בּוּז 
Buwz 
Usage: 11

בּוּזה 
Buwzah 
Usage: 1

בּזה 
Bazah 
Usage: 42

בּזה 
Bazoh 
Usage: 1

זוּל 
Zuwl 
Usage: 1

מאס 
Ma'ac 
Usage: 76

נאץ 
Na'ats 
Usage: 25

קלה 
Qalah 
Usage: 6

קלל 
Qalal 
Usage: 82

שׁאט 
Sha't 
Usage: 3

ἀθετέω 
Atheteo 
Usage: 10

ἀτιμάζω 
Atimazo 
Usage: 4

ἄτιμος 
Atimos 
Usage: 2

ἐξουθενέω 
Exoutheneo 
Usage: 11

καταφρονέω 
Kataphroneo 
Usage: 6

καταφροντής 
Kataphrontes 
Usage: 1

ὀλιγωρέω 
Oligoreo 
Usage: 1

περιφρονέω 
Periphroneo 
Usage: 1

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